Comments on: The Latest on MMA in Vancouver – Dave TV Video Blog http://www.dave.ca/wp/2009/09/18/the-latest-on-mma-in-vancouver-dave-tv-video-blog/ Sun, 23 May 2010 11:25:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jerome Yang http://www.dave.ca/wp/2009/09/18/the-latest-on-mma-in-vancouver-dave-tv-video-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5484 Jerome Yang Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:54:37 +0000 http://www.dave.ca/wp/?p=1111#comment-5484 Hi Dave - Nice meeting you at the October meeting of the Vancouver Athletic Commission. I had intended to attend the September meetings but there wasn't a whole lot of notice with regard to posting the meeting dates on the VAC site. I agree that MMA should be permitted in Vancouver, and I was puzzled and quite frankly disappointed that it was banned after 2006! I attended a huge MMA event (ballpark 40,000) at Saitama Super Arena in Japan in 2004, put on by the largest MMA organization at the time - Pride Fighting Championship. Amazing! I think events in Canada could one day reach this size. But politicians do have to come around to seeing it as a professional sport. Hi Dave – Nice meeting you at the October meeting of the Vancouver Athletic Commission. I had intended to attend the September meetings but there wasn’t a whole lot of notice with regard to posting the meeting dates on the VAC site.

I agree that MMA should be permitted in Vancouver, and I was puzzled and quite frankly disappointed that it was banned after 2006!

I attended a huge MMA event (ballpark 40,000) at Saitama Super Arena in Japan in 2004, put on by the largest MMA organization at the time – Pride Fighting Championship. Amazing! I think events in Canada could one day reach this size. But politicians do have to come around to seeing it as a professional sport.

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